Railroad-track connection.



PATENTED JULY 21,1903;

w. P. MILLER. RAILROAD TRAGKCONNEOTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 10, 1903..

N0 MODEL.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES Patented July 21, 1903.

WALTER F. MILLER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

RAILROAD-TRACKCONNECTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,345, dated July 21 1903.

Application filed March 10,1903. Serial No. 147,112. (No model. A

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ,WALTER F. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

in the county of Kings and State of New York,

have invented a new and Improved Rail- Joint, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to the construction of railway-tracks; and its object is to provide a new and improved rail-joint arranged to allow of joining the rail ends without the use of bolts, separate fish-plates, and the like and to prevent sagging of the track-rails and spreading thereof.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate cor-..

responding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

The rail-joint chair is made of a single piece of metal and consists of a base A, from the sides of which rise integral angle-platesB B,

forming with the base A a longitudinal recess of inverted-T shape for the reception of the base and web portions of the adjacent ends 0 O of the rails to be joined. The bottom members of the angle-plates B B are extended sidewise throughout their length to form spiking-flanges D D,- the under sides of which lie in the same horizontal plane that contains the upper surface of the base A.

Now in using the device the rail-joint chair is preferably supported at its ends on spaced ties E E, provided at their top with alined cut-out portions or recesses E for the reception of the base A, so that the under sides of the flanges D D rest on the upper surfaces of the ties adjacent tothe cut-out portions thereof. Now in order to securely fasten the rail-joint chair in position on the ties spikes with each other.

F are driven through openings in the spikingflanges down into the ties, as plainly illustrated in the drawings. Ifdesired', the spikes .may be driven down into the ties along the outer edges of the spiking-flanges instead of through the openings therein, as shown and above mentioned. The ends 0 O of the rails to be joined are passed into the recess of the chair from opposite ends, so that the rail ends meet at or near the middle of the chairpa's plainly indicated in the drawings. Now by the arrangement described the rails are sup-.

ported by the chairs, and the latter are in turn secured to'the ties, as described, so that the rails'are not liable to sag, and owing to the base A of the chair beinglet in in the ties- Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1 l. The combination of a tie havingarecess in its upper face with a rail-joint made of a single piece of metal, comprising a base fitting the recess in the tie and angle-plates rising integrally from the sides of the base to form with the latter a longitudinal inverted:

' T-shaped recess for the reception of the rail ends, the bottom of the T-shaped recess being flush with the top of'the tie, as set forth.

2. Arail-joint chair made of a single piece of metal, comprising a base, and angle-plates "rising integrally from the sides of the base,

to form with the latter an inverted-T-shaped recess for the reception of the rail ends, the horizontal members of the angle-plates being extended at their sidesbeyond the'sides of the base and above the same, to f0rmspi-k-' ing-flanges, as set forth.

3. The combination of a tie having a recess in its upper face, witha rail-joint chair made of a single piece of metal, comprising a base I yond the sides of the base and above the fitting the recess in the tie, and angle-plates I same, to form spiking-flanges resting on the rising integrally from the sides of the base, to form with the latter a longitudinal invert- I 5 ed-T-shaped recess for the reception of the] Witnesses:

top surface of the tie, as set forth.

WALTER F. MILLER.

ELVINA 0. SMITH, HOWARD M. FIELD.

rail ends, the horizontal members of the angle-plates being extended at their sides be- 

